# Scholar-Hermits in the Autumn Mountains

- By: Tang Yin (Chinese, 1470–1523)
- Date: 1500–1510
- Medium: handscroll, ink and light color on silk
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Overall: 28.6 x 232.4 cm (11 1/4 x 91 1/2 in.)
- Culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Credit line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.94)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.94/1976.94_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The handscroll's composition begins quietly, grows in complexity and massiveness at the center, and then ends again quietly.